[Kwintv] How to get kwintv going with a vcr
Steve
beforewisdom at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 5 22:00:24 CEST 2005
Mike Zarek wrote:
> "line in" on the tv card (physically on the back of the card bracket)
> usually refers to audio ... Most huappage cards (I don't know what model
> you have) require a pigtail to breakout the individual jacks from a
> multi-jack on back (looks similar to S-video, but more pins)... You are
> looking for a "video in" jack .. It will be a female RCA connector, just
> like the one on back of the VCR..
Okay.
I'm trying to connect my vcr to my haugapuge TV card and watch the
output in kdetv.
When I press "Devices" on the kdetv menu I am told that it is seeing
"bt878 HaugePauge video4linx(/dev/video ).
I found the manual that came with my TV card. It has the following
jacks labeled thusly in the manual:
- FM radio connector ( looks like a coaxial )
- TV Connector ( for antenna or Cable TV input )
- line out ( audio output )
- S-Video input and camera connector
- line in ( audio input )
- "IR" remote control receiver socket
I went out to Radio Shack ( US electronics store ) and bought an "RF
Modulator". I hooked that to my vcr and my hauge pauge card thus:
RF mod "to tv" jack <-- coaxial cable --> tv card "TV Connector" jack
RF mod yellow "video jack" <-- rf cable --> vcr yellow video out jack
RF mod red "audio jack" <-- rf cable --> vcr red "audio right" jack
Rf mod white "audio jack" <-- rf cable --> vcr white "audio left" jack
The light on the RF modulator was on, indicating a signal was going into
it. The RF modulator has a swtich for channel 3 or 4 ( I picked 3 ) and
it had an "OHMS" switch with 75 or 1K. I picked 75. Also on the RF
modulator was another coaxial jack labeled "ANT IN" and and "S Video" jack.
The VRC was on channel 3.
I then went to kdetv | settings | configure kdetv | channels | new
I picked "composite 1" for "source" and "auto" for "encoding"
I got further along, instead of static I got a solid blue screen with no
sound.
Steve
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